Can classical music be funny? | Tom Service
It's hard to find any truly comedy classical, but record covers are another matter. And as for classical critics doing standup ...Can you think of any funny classical music? Haydn string quartets? They might induce a self-congratulatory Wigmore Hall-style titter, but that's about it. Rossini overtures or Charles Ives? Possibly, but Tom Lehrer or Flanders and Swann they ain't. The problem is that, with a handful of ex…